US 12,380,411 B2
Recyclable product, tracking device and method of tracking a recyclable product
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/792,871
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Sony Europe B.V., Weybridge (GB)
PCT Filed Feb. 22, 2021, PCT No. PCT/GB2021/050428
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/198637, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2004770 (GB), filed on Mar. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0051115 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/30 (2023.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01)
CPC G06Q 10/30 (2013.01) [H04W 4/029 (2018.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of tracking a recyclable product, the method comprising
activating one or more communications devices embedded within or attached to at least one part of the recyclable product, the one or more communications devices including circuitry configured to monitor a location of the at least one part of the recyclable product, and to communicate via a wireless communications network;
in response to the activating the one or more communications devices:
switching the one or more communications devices from an inactive state in which the one or more communications devices do not transmit an indication of the location of the at least one part of the recyclable product to a recycling state in which the one or more communications devices transmit the indication of the location of the at least one part of the recyclable product to a tracking entity via the wireless communications network, wherein the indication of the location is transmitted in configurable time slots for specific durations; and
transmitting, by the one or more communications devices to the tracking entity via the wireless communications network, composition information regarding materials comprising the recyclable product with the indication of the location of the at least one part of the recyclable product, wherein the composition information is stored on the one or more communications devices.